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Friday, December 6, 2013

Organize A Palarong Pinoy Mini-Olympics As Team-Building Activity

The
Traditional Filipino Games are back in the mainstream of society. At
the turn of the century, the revival started in community-barangays and
in schools.

Today, Filipino corporations are getting into the game;
energizing employees with games that they use to play in the childhood
years.

More and more Filipino corporations are organizing Palarong
Pinoy sports fests. This year, over 500 organizations have discovered the fun
of having a Larong Pinoy Mini-Olympics ---- with teams playing Patintero,
Luksong Tinik, Luksong Lubid, Tumbang Preso, Sipang Bilangan, and other Filipino
traditional street games.

Playing the Traditional Filipino Street Games has become an alternative
to implementing the usual Western sports activities.

For many years, many companies
have been organizing popular sports like basketball or volleyball; and usually,
only younger employees get to play in the tournaments.

In Larong Pinoy games, everybody --- young
and old --- were able participate in almost every type of game. It was so fun that even employees who did not
play enjoyed the event, cheering, "jeering" and supporting their teams
in every game. The fun is unforgettable. And best of all, employees who do not know
each other become familiar with everyone.

The organizers of Palarong Pinoy events is an organization called Magna Kultura
Foundation, an education-for-development NGO that has been advocating
grassroots cultural activities in the Philippines. Magna Kultura revived the Traditional Filipino
Street Games back into the mainstream of society with sports clinics and
tournaments that are conducted in barangay communities and in schools.

In the Y-2008, HRDs of Filipino companies started calling on
Magna Kultura to organize team-building activities using Larong Pinoy games as
platform for bonding employees. Magna
Kultura organized the company sports fests, hassle-free for the HRDs: from
planning to implementation, with tournament systems & procedures, game manuals
with playing rules for each and every Filipino game; and running the games with
referees and game marshals. The company’s organizing committee just sat back
and relaxed; playing with the rest of their fellow-employees.

Magna Kultura continues to conduct Palarong Pinoy sports
fests for companies, on top of their on-going sports outreach programs in
schools and barangays. Magna Kultura works
with HRDs and sports committees to conduct “proudly Pinoy” games that transforms
the Filipino work-force into Communi-Teams.

Organizing Larong Pinoy Sports Fest for Private companies is
among the cultural entrepreneurship approaches of Magna Kultura to revive the
games among Filipino adults who use to play the games; at the same time, an
advocacy to revive the Games of Our Heritage ("Laro ng Lahi") back in
the mainstream of Philippine society, among children and adults.

ABOUT MAGNA KULTURA

The Filipino Street Games is a cultural Treasure cherished by generations of Filipinos. In the age of Modern technology & high-tech game gadgets, Magna Kultura Foundation is advocating the Games of our heritage in the new generation: to bond families and to enliven communities. This is Game, this is our culture.

Magna Kultura uses arts and culture to enjoin fellow-Filipinos folks to participate in community-building activities; mobilizing citizens in creative ways, in order to actively build their communities. Magna Kultura creates advocates in communities in building an ecosystem of transformation.